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ParkboardabidesbyDudeChillingParkBUZZ-WORTHY SIGNRECEIVES INTERNATIONALATTENTION

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The former president and CEO of the B.C. LotteryCorporation has joined a new company in whichhe will oversee the operations of a $535 millioncasino complex to be built adjacent to B.C. PlaceStadium.Michael Graydon, who announced his resignation from

the lottery corporation in January, is the president of thenewly formed PVHospitality ULC, which is described as anequal partnership with afliates 360 VOXCorporation andParagon Gaming Inc.

Paragon is the Las Vegas company that owns EdgewaterCasino at the former Plaza of Nations site. In December, thecitys development permit board granted Paragon a prelimi-nary development application to build a new casino, withhotels and restaurants adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium.News of Graydons new job surfaced in a Feb. 7 news re-

lease posted on theCanadaNewsWire,which saidGraydonsrst priority will be oversight and operations of Vancouversnewworld-class urban resort adjacent to B.C. Place.Paragon spokesperson Tamara Hicks told the Courier in

an email Friday that Graydon was unavailable for an inter-view until next week.

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GETTING INTO THE SWING OF THINGS: 90 years young, Tong Fook Wah plays tennis everyday at sunrise atthe Langara Tennis Courts. See related story on page 19.

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While late nighttalk showhostJimmy Kim-mel is con-sidering a move to Canada,legions of dedicated fans(also known as achievers)of the cult classic lm The BigLebowski are considering pil-grimages to Vancouver.The catalyst for the

international attentionVancouver is receiving oflate is not the start of theOlympic Games in Sochi,to which this city playedhost four years ago, butrather a small East Sidepark and a public art in-stallation declaring thetiny green space DudeChilling Park.For anyone not familiar

with the now infamousart piece, it mysteriouslyappeared in Guelph Parkon Brunswick Street atEast Seventh in November

2012 as an exact replicaof an official park boardsign. The name pays hom-age to the Reclining Figuresculpture by Michael Den-nis that lies in the park.The sign was quickly re-

moved but a petition wasimmediately launched tobring it back. The parkboard voted last weekto reinstall the sign inits original location anderect an adjacent plaquedescribing the piece andreferencing the Coast Sal-ish connection to the land.The park will still offi-cially be known as GuelphPark. Guelph was QueenVictorias family name.Following that vote,

considered a victory forachievers everywhere,spread via social media.The Big Lebowski is a 1998movie starring Jeff Bridg-es as the Dude, an un-married slacker who lovesto bowl.

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Mayor Gregor Robertson is quite themultitasker. Last week, he caughta ight to South Africa for a confer-ence, hung with former New York mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg andplanteda tree inSoweto.Dont worry taxpayers, apparently Rob-

ertsons tab is being picked up by the C-40Cities Climate Leadership Group, whichinvited mayors to Johannesburg to talk cli-mate change. No word on what all that airtravel did to the environment.Anyway, the mayor attended the confer-

ence while staying in touch with his staffback here in frigid Vancouver and ensuredthey pumped out a few press releases.It is an election year, after all.The rst dispatch celebrated the news that

London mayor Boris Johnson endorsed thecitys mission to Sochi, where Coun. Tim Ste-venson and activistMaureenDouglas landedas advocates for LGBTQ rights and inclusionin the Olympics and future Games.Johnsons endorsement didnt come as a

surprise since the mop-topped funnyman

welcomed a Pride House during LondonsSummer Olympics in 2012.Still, the mayor thought Johnsons sup-

port was worth a mention and a couple ofquotes, including: I would like to thankmayor Johnson and the people of Londonfor their support and congratulate Coun-cillor Stevenson and Ms. Douglas for theirsuccessful leadership on such an importanthuman rights issue.The same day, Robertsons words ap-

peared in another release this time thetopic was arts and culture.The city has nally found tenants for

8,500 sq. feet of oor space at the down-town CBC building. The PuSh InternationalPerforming Arts Festival Society and part-ners, Touchstone Theatre, the Documenta-ryMedia Society andMusic onMain Societywill move into the space.The city is proud to support affordable

spaces for artists, and the community culturalhub in theCBCbuilding isagreatt forgroupslike the PuSh Festival, Robertson said.What wasnt included in the release is

what I reported in January 2013 that thecity had paid $144,000 over three years torent vacant space.

I understand that bill jumped another$38,000 since my report and will cost the city$46,000ayear to allowPuShand theothers tooperate; PuSh will pay a nominal rental fee of$10 for therst 10years under the agreement.Robertson wasnt done emailing/texting

or phoning in more comments for publicconsumption. Last Thursday, he issued astatement regarding Transportation Min-ister Todd Stones willingness to delay thetransportation referendum and change thegovernance of TransLink.I included some of it in a story I wrote

about the new developments in the transitback-and-forth. But here it is again for thoseof you whomissed it.Its a positive step to see the province sup-

porting a delay for their referendum. WhileI have always stated that I do not support atransit referendum, if it does proceed its cru-cial that it beheldat a timewhencitizens, busi-nesses,mayors and hopefully the province canall focus on making the clear economic andquality of life case for urgently needed transitimprovements. I will join other mayors to dis-cuss minister Stones letter next week whenwevehad theopportunity to reect on it.And, no doubt, well hear what he has to

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newsKimmel enchantedby signContinued from page 1

On Feb. 3, USA TODAY baseball editor@GabeLacques wrote on Twitter, Canadawins again RT @ParkBoard Its ofcial,Guelph Park has new public art! DudeChilling Park sign approved. Meanwhile,another Twitter user posted this ode to Van-couver, Honestly canada? I f_____g loveyall up north...But it was the Jimmy Kimmel show last

week that had the Twitterverse buzzing.In his opening monologue, the late nighthost showed a clip of CTV anchor Keri Ad-ams announcing the move, along with ashort clip of Vision Vancouver park boardcommissioner Sarah Blyth discussing thesign. At the end of the clip Kimmel an-nounced, Between Dude Chilling Parkand Rob Ford, I might have to move toCanada.Blyth told the Courier she was surprised

to see herself on Jimmy Kimmel Live.Art is supposed to start discussion, but I

wasnt expecting it from him, said Blyth. Butpeople were tweeting from all over the world,evenfromBerlin,Paris,ChicagoandNewYork.Wegot a lot of comments fromNewYork.Blyth said the signmakes passers-by smile,

which is important in these hectic times.People have stressful lives. I have two

jobs and a son Im raising on my own. Iwatch the news on TV and its a downer,said Blyth. But I know that when I walk by

that sign its going to make me smile.Blyth was also happy about the attention

the park is receiving from Big Lebowski fans.In a column dedicated to the Dude ChillingPark sign in the Atlantic Cities newspaper,staff writer John Metcalfe wrote in part,Ascribe this victory to the all-consumingcosmic energy of The Big Lebowski:Over thecries of a vocal minority of residents, theVancouver Board of Parks and Recreationhas designated a green space as Dude Chill-ing Park.Metcalfe continued, The saga of Dude

Chilling Park which Lebowski purists nodoubt will correct as Dude Abiding Park began in November [2012] when an art-ist covered the original Guelph sign with afake but totally relaxing Dude version. Thenew sign was a reference to a nearby publicsculpture depicting a person taking a loadoff in a major Dude-worthy recline...Even the Main Street Poodle (@Main-

StreetPoodle) chimed in on Twitter. MainStreet Poodle is aTwitter accountdedicated toa public art piece that includes a large poodleon a pole, which when rst erected causedmuch discussion regarding its relevance.@ParkBoard How about naming my little

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The head of a mayors group re-sponsible for developing a futureplan for transit in the LowerMain-land hopes to get some clarica-tion and answers this Friday as to whatmayors can and cant do in their pursuit ofbetter transit.North Vancouver district mayor Richard

Walton, who doubles as chairperson of themayors council on regional transporta-tion, will join mayors Feb. 14 in their rstmeeting with Transportation Minister ToddStone since he announced new details on atransportation referendum and the gover-nance of TransLink.Stone said Feb. 6 he is willing to delay a

referendum asking Metro Vancouver resi-dents how andwhether to fundmajor transitexpansion projects. The referendum, origi-nally slated for November, would take placeno later than June 30, 2015, said Stone, whoalso promised his government will intro-duce legislation to give the regions mayorsapproval powers over TransLinks 30-yearstrategy and 10-year investment plan.Its a positive step forward and I certainly

receive it that way, Walton told the Courierby telephone as he rode the SeaBus. But asSurrey mayor Dianne Watts said, the devilis in the details. And oncewe have some an-swers to those, well have a better idea.Stone told reporters at a Feb. 6 press con-

ference the ball will be rmly in the courtof themayors council now. Stone elaborat-ed on his offering to the mayors in a letterhe sent toWalton. To ensure sufcient timeis available for in-depth public discussion,this extension [of the referendum] dependson the mayors council articulating and pre-senting a regional vision, with specic pri-orities and costs, Stone wrote.Stone said that vision or plan has to be

ready by June 30, 2014 or else the provin-cial government will look to tying the refer-endum to municipal elections in 2017. De-pending on what unfolds over the next fewmonths, Stone said a referendum could stillgo ahead in conjunction with this Novem-bers municipal elections.He warned a delay in holding a referen-

dum whether it be next year or in 2017 would mean the mayors council willhave to rely on existing funding sources toexpand transit in the interim period.Currently, transportation improvements

are funded by taxes and fees, includingproperty tax, gas tax, transit fares and tollson new crossings.Any new funding sources, Stone said,

must be generated within the region andnot be subsidized by taxpayers in the rest ofthe province. Also, the government will notpermit new funding to be collected from theprovincial transportation system.Stonesaidgovernment isprepared topay for

one-third of major new rapid transit projectsand the replacement of the Pattullo Bridge,which linksNewWestminster toSurrey.In June 2013, the mayors council an-

nounced it wouldnt support a referendum,predicting it would fail and jeopardize transitprojects. Themayors council, which includesMayor Gregor Robertson, noted the replace-mentof thePortMannBridgeandothermajorroad projects did not require a referendum.Robertson echoed Waltons comments

about Stones offering being a positive step.While I have always stated that I do

not support a transit referendum, if it doesproceed its crucial that it be held at a timewhen citizens, businesses,mayors andhope-fully the province can all focus on makingthe clear economic and quality of life casefor urgently needed transit improvements,Robertson said in a statement emailed tothe Courier last week.

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Therelease,however,quotedGraydonsayingI see this as a culmination of all Ive achievedinmy career, and am committed to help makePV Hospitality the worlds premier operator ofdestination resorts inNorthAmerica.Graydon worked for the lottery corporation

for six years and supported Paragons originalrequest of city council to build the new casinowith1,500slotmachinesand150games tables.In April 2011, city council voted unani-

mously to reject Paragons proposal, whichwould have almost tripled its current com-plement of slots and doubled the number ofgames tables.Council, however, did give Paragon the

green light to move its casino operations fromthe Edgewater site to the property adjacent toB.C. PlaceStadiumas longas it kept the cur-rent numberof 600 slots and75games tables.SandyGarossino, spokesperson for theanti-

gamblingcoalitionVancouverNotVegas!, saidGraydons appointment is stunning and shequestioned the ethics of themove.This is thequestion:Washenegotiatinghis

compensationpackagewithParagonwhilehewas sittingasCEOof the lottery corporation?said Garossino, adding that Graydon wouldlikely have nancial information and otherknowledge of Paragons competitors. Hesacquired that knowledge on the publics dimeand thats nowgone over to Paragon.In light of questions being raised about

Graydons new job, Hicks said it was impor-tant tonote the regulationof gambling inBrit-

ish Columbia falls under the provinces gam-ing policy enforcement branch, not BCLC.This is a highly regulated industry, both by

provincial and federal regulators, she wrote.Michaels record of integrity and leadershipiswell known in the industry, andwe are veryexcited towelcome him to our team.GarossinosaidGraydonsmoveremindedher

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tery corporation from 2001 to 2005 before join-ingParagonsboard. InApril2010, theVancouverSun reported that Turner placed a call in 2009to the minister responsible for the B.C. PavilionCorporation(PavCo),whichownsB.C.PlaceSta-dium.TurnerplacedthecallonbehalfofParagontosay thecompanywouldbackawayfromitsbidto build a casino complex if renovations to B.C.Placedidnt includearetractable roof.Turner told theSunhedidnt try to inuence

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development proposals or policies, includingmajor development applications, rezoning ap-plications, and other projects of public interest,although itsdecisionsarentbindingonthecity.In this case, the panel voted 8-0 in sup-

port of the development called Aperturedestined for 799 West 41st Ave. It includestwo large six-storey buildings and four two-storey laneway villas. They will be built onve former single-family lots.The project rst appeared before the UDP at

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ments and designed by the rm Arno MatisArchitecture Inc., is one of the approved ap-plications within the Cambie Corridor.Arno Matis told the Courier its the most

westerly site incorporated into the CambieCorridor Plan, so it can be seen as a gatewayinto theOakridgeprecinct,whichwill becomea major hub in Vancouver, especially if theproposed Oakridge Centre redevelopment isapproved.Sowewanted tomake sure, at least from

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youll see in theareawithsunshadesandsortofinternational-style ofce buildings, and so on,like the TD Bank on the corner of Cambie and41st, Matis explained. We denitely wantedtopickuponthatnotionofOakridgebeing thiscommunitywith ahistory ofmodernism.Because it was a rezoning, the project also

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pressing an approach to sustainability not un-like some of these modernist buildings thathad sunshades and various ways of control-ling light on them in the area. So, we cameup with a notion of... aperture, iris, I thinkwe called it, as a way of incorporating passivesunshading,butalsocreatingauniquepatternon the exteriorplay of light and shadowand also a way of providing privacy, deninglayers within the building, creating horizon-tality to the building proportion. All that kindof thinking got layered on top. Thats howwearrived at the kind of vocabulary, this expres-sion of these projecting decks with framingedges to them.Stacked timberswas another inspiration to

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CITY SEEKS INTERVENER STATUS INKINDERMORGAN PIPELINE HEARINGThe City of Vancouver has led for intervener status in thepublic hearing over the expansion of the Kinder Morgan oilpipeline due to concerns about emergency responders abil-ity to deal with a major spill. Kinder Morgan is applying totwin its existing pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, whichwould see oil tanker trafc in Burrard Inlet increase from80 a year to around 400. Intervener status would allowthe city to take an active role in the National Energy Boardhearing and make submissions to the board. If approved,construction of the $5.4 billion expansion could begin asearly as next year and be completed by 2017.

FIRST HOMICIDE OF THE YEAROne man is dead and two men are in custody following astabbing in downtown Vancouver on Sunday night that

marked the citys rst homicide of the year. Police respond-ing to reports of a ght near the corner of Granville andWest Georgia around 11 p.m. found an unconscious manon the sidewalk who had suffered a life-threatening stabwound. The 28-year-old was rushed to hospital but died afew hours later. Acting on tips from witnesses, police ar-rested two suspects.

AVALANCHEWARNINGAnyone venturing into the nearby mountains in the next fewdays shouldbewaryofdangerous avalanche conditions acrossmuch of southern B.C. According to the Canadian AvalancheCentre, the avalanche risk has gone from considerable to highin recent days for alpine and some treeline zones onmountainranges from the North Shore to across southeastern B.C., aswell as the northwest coast. Recent new snowon top of an un-derlyingweaker layer has created unstable conditions.

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to service reductions on all routes. It wasmentioned 563 times.So itwasabitawkward forTransportation

Minister Todd Stone last week to release thedocument at the same time he announcedservice reductions on all routes.Service reductions will affect social

fabric/communities and result in depopu-lation was another theme.Didnt seem to matter a whit. The previously announced service reduc-

tions are going ahead, social fabric be damned.They also heard an earful from people opposed to reducing the seniors

discount. Received and led. The plan to end the free ride for seniors willgo ahead as scheduled. All the key themes, of course, ran heavily againstthe government plan. But the plan is going to be executed. You rarely heara government accused of over-consultation, but you wonder if they over-did the public engagement shows that have been running the length ofthe coast for the past several months.There was a big round of hearings before the proposed cuts were an-

nounced. Then another round trying to gauge reaction to the cuts. Thenthe cuts were imposed pretty much as announced. It amounts to ignoringpeople twice, instead of just once.As a measure of how earnestly all this consultation has been analyzed,

the government noted that one of the key themes was skepticism aboutthe consideration of peoples input.Participants said they donot believe that B.C. Ferries and the government

have considered their previous input and responded to their concerns.Its more a case of them knowing they were going to catch sustained

hell for the cuts, catching the hell, going back and catching some more,but then going ahead with the cuts because they have no other options.Stone said Wednesday: None of this should come as a surprise. Hes

right in more ways than one.Therewill be some ne-tuning of some specic sailing cancellations. Yet

another round of consultation will start to rene schedules. The govern-ment said it will take into account the community input received duringengagement. But nobody can take that too seriously. If the governmentreally took that into account, there wouldnt be any cuts. The most thatusers of the minor routes can hope for will be retention of early and latesailings by curtailing somemid-day trips.About the only bone the government will throw to the legions of unhap-

py customers whomade their feelings known after the plan was proposedis a partial x to make up for the cancellation of the mid-coast Port Hardyto Bella Coola route. There isnt much talk at this point about more con-sultation on another round of cuts that are coming on the major routes.B.C. Ferries has whittled $4 million out of the budget with some cuts onthe two runs from the Nanaimo area to Metro Vancouver, and the SwartzBay-Tsawwassen runs. But it has to nd another $4.9 million in savingson those runs some time between now and April 2016. Analysis will beginsoon on developing potential service cuts.The service reductions on the minor routes have been defended by

stressing the absurdly low trafc volumes on selected sailings on someroutes. Stone cited sailings in Haida Gwaii and at Bowen Island that aver-age one car per trip, portraying them as classic wastes of money. But themajor routes have much more respectable volumes. So curtailing themwill be harder to justify.The one intriguing aspect still to come in the longmarch to nancial sus-

tainability is in customer-service technology. B.C. Ferries point-of-sale andreservation system is out of date. The consultation showed an appetite forsome new features. Huge majorities favour frequent-user discounts andvariable pricing for peak and off-peak sailings, something a new systemcould handle. Theres also a big appetite for early-booking discounts.That might be the one part of the consultation the government hears.

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COURIER STORY: Queen of Kitsch remembered for her warmth and wicked wit, Feb. 5.Holly:What an amazing lady. I hope the store stays open.

COURIER STORY: Showboating Vancouver council finally approves senior centre funding, Feb. 7.Mike Sullivan: They needed to put a bike path to the seniors centre and it would of got all the moneyit needed.Sam Foxdale @SFoxdale: Vision & NPA did NOTHING to get this done. The people in the community& community centre did all the work and convinced Feds.

COURIER STORY: Sun Sui Wah removes shark fin from menu, Feb. 7.Dave Wicks: Bravo to Vancouver Animal Defense League but more importantly the sharks. If youconsider that the west coast of Canada is the largest market for shark fins outside of Hong Kong,every success here will have significant impacts on the global shark conservation effort.

COURIER STORY: Vancouver goes a little bit country, Feb. 7.Wes Mack @WesMackMusic: Check out @Thunchers article in the @VanCourierNews talkin aboutmyself, @jrfm, the @bourbon and country in #yvr.

COURIER STORY: Hotel Vancouver raises the Roof, Feb. 5.Hotel Vancouver @FairmontVan: Thank you! We are excited to reintroduce Vancouver to The Roof!

QUEENOFKITSCHWILLBEMISSEDTo the editor:Re: Queen of Kitsch re-

membered for her warmth andwicked wit, Feb. 5.I was shocked, yesterday, when

I went to Urban Empire to seePatricia. I was going to lend hermy cell-phonewhen shewentinto the hospital for surgery - shedidnt have one, andwanted to beable to order in REAL foodwhilethere. The storewas closed, andthe notice on the door said it all:this one-of-a-kind business-woman gone forever.Patricia had no time for the

politically correct and the smarmyNewAgers. She spoke her wick-ed sense of humor and it showeditself from the front window tothe backwall of her store.There aremany peoplemore

worthy of an early death thanPatricia.Mike Tropp,Vancouver

JUSTICESYSTEMTAKENTOTASKTo the editor:Re: Aboriginal voices miss-

ing from task force, Feb. 5.At least as important as hav-

ing voice on task force commit-tees, all aboriginal nations andcommunities deserve a strongvoice in what kind of justicesystem will maintain the lawsby which they live, most notably

their traditional healing/sen-tencing circle.As a white man, when I many

years ago had to stand beforea criminal-trial judge, seatedway up upon a wood bench, mychronic anxiety had turned whatwas a fairly minor infraction,into an ordeal.Thus, when I heard about

the aboriginal healing circle, Ithought that our non-aborigi-nal society should realize howbenecial it would be to allow allaboriginal peoples to practicetheir healing/sentencing circle,for aboriginal-based crimes(i.e., aboriginal perpetratorsagainst aboriginal victims).The healing/sentencing circle

should be utilized because ourcriminal-court system can be un-productive and even destructive.The aboriginal healing/sen-

tencing circle, on the contrary,has all of those people involvedwith a crime (the offender, thevictim and their families, etc.)sitting in a circle and facing oneanother apparently with equalstatus.Furthermore, instead of just

shipping an offender off to jail,he is made to answer directly tothose he has hurt and possiblybring about healing resolution.He hears and responds to his

victims pain, andmay perhapsalso express his own painful pastwhichmay have corrupted him.Our current, often pompous

adversarial justice system couldvery well learn a positive thing

or two from the healing/sen-tencing circle, especially whendealing with those accused whoare already enduring a life af-fected by mental illness and/orsubstance abuse.Frank G. Sterle, Jr.,White Rock

KITSROADCLOSURELACKSVISIONTo the editor:Re: What to expect with Point

Grey closure, Jan. 23.For decades Vancouver has

had a policy of land acquisitionto provide a sea view route alongEnglish Bay. With the high costof the land on Point Grey road,the land bank was stalled.

Now, the Vision party hasabdicated this valid policyand designated the route as aprivate driveway for the wealthyresidents at a great loss to taxpaying citizenry who wish to ac-cess our waterfront and the miniparks on Point Grey Road.What next, close English Bay

access via Beach and Pacicin an area where cyclists areactually spotted in modestnumbers?And why did Vision close the

street when the City of Vancou-ver right of way could accommo-date a bike route separate fromthe existing road?Could it be lucrative political

support over common sense?Rick Angus,Vancouver

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Changingmindsisnt an easymatterWhen was the last time youchanged your mind? I dontmean that you changed yourmind about what to have fordinner or what tie to wear. I mean, whenwas the last time you changed one of yourcore beliefs about the world? And whatmade you do it?Ive been thinking about this ever since

I watched a movie called Pandoras Prom-ise recently. Its about environmentalists,most of whom were rmly against nuclearpower, who have made a 180-degree turn.They are now pro-nuclear power.Nor is this a function of old hippies turn-

ing into right-wingers as they age these folks believe that nuclear poweris necessary to ward off global warming.The most fascinating part of the program was watching one of the en-

vironmentalists visit the devastation and the somewhat irradiated zonedirectly around the Fukushima nuclear plant in the aftermath of the tsu-nami that largely destroyed the building. He admitted that it wasnt com-fortable to have his new beliefs about the relative safety of nuclear powerchallenged. He couldnt help doubting his own still-recent conversion.Most of the lm was about nuclear power itself, but it was those mo-

ments of questioning that left me fascinated.What causes or allows a change of belief?We cling to our core beliefs, but we do so with a fervour that suggests

it has little to do with the fact that we think the beliefs are right. We pushback hard when we are challenged.One of the easiest ways to bait me into an argument is to speak up in

favour of creationism the idea that the Earth is only about 6,000 yearsold, and that humans and animals and plants were all created around thesame time. (Ditto for intelligent design.)

Why does creationismbug me so much? Becausewhile Im not a scientist, Ilove learning new thingsabout the universe. I lovethe idea that the universeis, for the most part atleast, knowable. I nd awein the idea thatwe are onlythe most recent branchof evolution, the tip of abroad and branching treethat includes dinosaursand bacteria, sea spongesand redwoods.I could (and do) make a

lot of arguments about why Im right and why the creationists are wrong.But at least part of the reasonwhy itwindsmeup somuch isnt the objectiveissue, its the way its bound up intomy sense of who I am as a person. Like-wise, the creationists who are no doubt reading this and getting upset be-cause theyre having something at the core of their own beliefs challenged.Politicians, youll notice, dont try to change our actual opinions. They just

try to tie thingswealready like (families, security,money, patriotism) to theirparty. Then they try to attach things we dont like (lies, stupidity, failure) totheir opponents. An election is no time to debate real issues, after all.Many of our beliefs seem to be subject to clustering. Whats the connec-

tion between supporting lower taxes and the death penalty, exactly?Mostof us get a lot of our beliefs pre-packaged. You support A? Then you alsosupport A1, A2, and A3. The conventional wisdom of the group dictatesthat, if you strongly believe one tenet, you probably believe the others, soas not to rock the boat.Finally, consider this: at least something you believe rmly will be con-

demned by history as backwards, barbaric, and foolish. Go back a hundredyears and your great-grandparents certainly believed things that wouldmake you cringe now. Out in the world now are the iconoclasts who willbe proven right.

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FAIRVIEWA fundraising event taking place Feb. 13 atthe Waterfall Building onWest Second Ave-nue promises an evening of entertainment,delicious food and beverages. All for a goodcause.The Michael Cuccione Foundation and

H.A.V.E. Culinary Training Society are thebeneciaries of the event, sponsored by theVancouver Courier, WE, Wazuku AdvisoryGroup, and Mills Ofce Productivity.The Michael Cuccione Foundation was

founded in 1997 with a goal to change theway childhood cancer is researched. Fundsraised by this foundation are donated inmemory of Michael Cuccione, who at nine-years-old had a vision to support variousresearch programs across Canada and theU.S. Since Michaels death, the foundationhas spread his message and kept his dreamalive.H.A.V.E, the Hope Action Values Ethics

Culinary Training Society, is a non-protcharity and social enterprise located in theDowntown Eastside. H.A.V.E. provides foodservice job training and work opportunitiesto individuals who experience barriers toemployment, including addiction, mentalhealth issues, mental and physical disabili-ties, learning disabilities, age, languagedifculties, homelessness and poverty. TheWaterfall Building is located at 1540 WestSecond Ave. For more information email,Geneva at [email protected].

RILEY PARKThe popular Bakers Market is back and willtake place at the Moberly Arts and CulturalCentre, 7646 Prince Albert St., Feb. 16 and23,March 2 and 9, April 20 and 27 and May4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.The market launched in response to the

many talented amateur and professional

bakers in the city who kept creating theirspecialties and sharing them with friendsand family. They now are sharing their tal-ents and spoils with the community so lookfor hand-made chocolates, brownies, cup-cakes, cake pops, scones, organic mufns,vegan baked goods, preserves, tarts, youname it but no veggies please, its notthat kind of market.Anyoneinterested inshowingoff theirwares

and being a vendor at the Bakers Market cansignupatbakersmarket.com.Themarket is in-doors and theres lots of freeparking sobaked-goods lovers can shop in comfort.

DOWNTOWNCBC Vancouvers Toque Sessions continuenow through Feb. 28 at the CBC BroadcastCentre, 700 Hamilton St.These free concerts, in their fth year,

run each Thursday and Friday beginning at7:30 p.m. in Studio One. Reservations arenot available, and the lineup is pretty im-pressive, so if you want to catch one of theshows its advised you show up by 6:30 p.m.in time for the 7:30 p.m. start. Remainingshows include the Harpoonist and the AxeMurderer (Feb. 13), Blackie and the RodeoKings (Feb. 14), Said the Whale (Feb. 20),Dean Brody (Feb. 21), Dan Brubeck Quar-tet (Feb. 27) andHannah Georgas and RyanGuldemond (Feb. 28).

RIVER DISTRICTKids can enjoy a free screening of the movieTurbo Sunday, Feb. 16, at the River DistrictCentre at the south end of Kerr Street offSoutheast Marine Drive.Turbo is a movie about a snail that gets the

gift of speed after a freak accident, even com-peting in the Indianapolis 500. With a littlehelp from his friends, Turbo proves that ifyou put your mind to it, you can accomplishanything. Show time is 4 p.m. and free pop-cornwill be served. Dont forget to take a pil-low, blanket, sleeping bag and stuffed animalso kids feel right at home. Formore informa-tion, email [email protected] or call theRiver District Centre at 604-431-5594.


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When Adam Chatburn movedto Vancouver from Black-burn, England six years ago,the reason certainly hadntanything to do with Canadian beer. Whilethe long-time home brewer of cider andmead wanted a change of scenery, it didnttake long to realize there was more to beerculture in his new home than what the tele-vision ads of ctional mountain creaturesand voluptuous snow bunnies would haveanybody believe.

Canada didnt have a great reputationfor great beer but when I came here and re-alized how much great beer there was, andwhat the world didnt know about, I wantedto get involved, said Chatburn, now thepresident of the Vancouver chapter of theCampaign for Real Ale Society of British Co-

lumbia, better known as CAMRA.The group originated in England more

than 40 years ago because of the prolifera-tion of factory beers replacing traditionalregional beers. Even now, in more moderntimes, theres still far more to the groupthan hanging out in a pub with a pint as evi-denced by this past Saturdays cider and glu-ten-free beer tasting event at the WISE Hall.Whilemost urban eateries and bakeries haverecently been offering gluten-free optionsfor those with celiac disease, or even thosewho are just sensitive to the sticky substancefound inmany grains, CAMRA realized theremust be no fatemore terrible for a beer loverthan not being able to drink beer.Two years ago there were one or two

and they werent very nice, said Chatburnof the gluten-free beers that were availableat the time. I think people tried them andthey were turned off quite quickly.Thus, CiderWISE was born. And Chat-

burn plans to make it an annual event toshowcase some of the new options availableto gluten-sensitive beer-drinkers.We have people who are new to the ex-

perience of tasting beer and weve beenamazed by the response, he said. Its notjust, Heres the beer, drink the beer! Werehere so you can learn about this stuff, getinterested in it, nd out more about it, ndout what avours you like.While cider is already gluten-free by na-

ture, there are two approaches to makinga gluten-free beer. One is using grains thatdont have any gluten, such as oats, rice,or millet. The other is removing the glutenfrom the beer by adding an enzyme thatbreaks down the gluten. The result is thatthe latter tastes more like traditional beer,but still may contain traces of gluten, whichis only ne for those with minor sensitivi-ties. There is much more to the process, ofcourse, which is why there was a continual

cluster of people listening to Danny Seetonall afternoon Saturday. Seeton, a graduatestudent at theUniversity of B.C., is CAMRAseducation liaison and has a personal inter-est in perfecting a gluten-free beer becauseceliac disease runs in his family.Experimentingwith beer is something that

comesnaturally to local craft beer lovers, saidChatburn, adding that the local microbrew-ery scene has exploded in the last few years.Its fantastic its all happening here, he

said. Places like England and Germany,theyre classic places for beer but there isntthe variety. Theyre very set in their waysin what they like and how they make it. InB.C., anythings up for grabs, he said.Its like, Oh, were going to try and make

thisFinnishbeermadewithjuniperberries!Theres this wonderful sense of experimenta-tion that goes with it. And I think thats gotsomething to do with the multiculturalismTheres room for different possibilities here.

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Over the years Ivetried out all kindsof gardening ex-tras some I stillcherish, others not so muchwhilea fewmorewould likelybe perfect for someone witha different garden and verydiligent habits.For instance, slug saloons

where the slimycrittersdrinktheir way into a happy de-mise are now manufacturedin a larger size with more

apertures capable of holding40 bodies in one night. For-getting to check slug saloonsevery day can lead to experi-ences best forgotten.A totally beautiful Slug

Shield is a scramble of wovencopper wire, which you wraparound the plant you wantto protect and unwrap whennecessary. It would be impor-tant to keep up to date withweeding because slugs arequick to cross plant bridges.Another lovely garden ac-

cessory is the fakewasp nestsaid to deter wasps frombuilding nearby.Regardless of just how far

away the real wasps wouldrelocate, the make-believenest is denitely worth aspot in the garden (or over adoorway) for attractivenessalone.Another good-looking ad-

dition to the garden is the

expandingwillowwood trel-lis, which would be a sturdysupport for those fascinat-ing but annoying heritagebeans that are scramblingtypes: not sturdy enough tobe dwarf beans but too shortto be pole beans.The trellis is also a simple,

easy support for cucumbersor short peas. Sometimespeas are planted thickly andleft to support each otherand united, they do stand.But picking pods out of thistangle takes a lot more timethan trellising them.This trellis comes in two

sizes, expanding to either 4feet (1.6m) or 8 feet (3.1m).Both are 4 feet (1.6m) high.One of my favourite ac-

cessories is a heating matfor starting seeds fastthrough bottom heat. Myelderly and so useful mat isabout 10x20 (25x50cm)

but theres now a window-sill version about 20x3(6x50cm).The exible, light Tub-

trugs in a variety of colourslook like an improvementon my random collection ofdetergent buckets, Spracklepails and other clanky oldcast-offs. Each Tubtrug hastwo handles, and can besqueezed narrowly to pourliquids. There are small (14litre),medium (26 litre) andlarge (38 litre) versions.Topsy Turvey tomato (or

strawberry) planters havebecome very popular. Thesehanging pots with owersand fruit cascading downthe sides are easy to pickand their high, sunny loca-tions result in more fruit be-cause theyre very visible topollinating insects.Seniorsmightwant tomake

sure theyre strong enoughto hang up these planters inspring and take themdown infall. Its also helpful to ensuresoil in these hanging pots is alightweightmix.Netting is a universal way

of protecting berries andvegetables from birds andanimals. But, sadly, birdsare especially likely to gettangled in it. Freeing themcan be difcult and some-times heart-breaking.The smaller mesh sizes

keep birds safer while stillbeing excellent deterrents.Half an inch (approximately1.5cm) is one of the smallermesh sizes available.The black Bird D-Fence

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Sitting at the McDonalds restau-rantonSouthwestMarineDriveearly Tuesday morning, TongFook Wah describes the differ-ence between tennis andbadminton.Tennis is easier because you hit

the ball and it comes back to you, itbounces, explainedWah, sipping on agreen tea. With badminton you needto chase [the bird] all over.Wah saidmaking the switch 16 years

ago is why at age 90, his knees are stillin good shape.I had tennis elbow the rst year I

played, he said. But by the next sum-mer it was gone.Wah plays at the Langara Tennis

Courts atWest 56thAvenueandOntarioStreet every day of the yearweather per-mitting, including during the bitter coldVancouver suffered therstweekofFeb-ruary. But on this day, tennis was can-celled due to extremely icy conditions.But black ice didnt stop the 90-year-oldfrom driving in from his Burnaby homewhere he moved three years ago withhis wife to live with the couples young-est daughter. Prior to themove, the fam-ily lived in the Sunset neighbourhood,where he played at Memorial Park be-fore joining the Langara group.Wearing a ski jacket bearing a logo

from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Gamesand a grey baseball cap, Wah belies hisnine decades and in fact looks decadesyounger. And while he also credits hislongevity to the fact he doesnt drink,gamble or smoke, Wah said its tennisthat truly keeps him going.Seniors who play tennis get good

exercise and fresh air, said Wah.Langara Tennis Group president

Terry Kong said besides the fact Wahrises as early as 5:30 a.m. to head tothe tennis courts in the summer hesalso in charge of cleaning them priorto the rst games of the day.We bought him a battery-powered

blower to clean the courts, said Kong,who turned 76 in January.Kong said thegroup isbroken into two

informal groups including seniors andtheplayers he fondly calls the senior se-niors,most ofwhomare in their 80s.The club began more than 25 years

ago as an informal group of playerswho used to play at the Langara Col-lege courts prior to their renovationsin 1995. Kong said thats when thecollege started charging a fee so thegroup moved onto the public courts

tucked into the southeast corner of theLangara Golf Course, which he says atthe time were in deplorable shape.Two of the courts were so badly ru-

ined by tree roots that the park boarddeemed them too dangerous to playand took the nets down. Kong said theother two courts werent much better,so in 2001 the group successfully peti-tioned the park board to replace them.Those renovations took place in

2003, which is when the players decid-ed to create a semi-formal group andcollect a $10 membership fee annuallyto help pay for incidental maintenanceof the courts. The group purchasedbrooms, garbage cans and rakes tokeep the courts clean and two regu-lation nets to replace ones suppliedby the park board. The next year thegroup added another $10 annual feeand now provides tennis balls betweenApril and September. New membersare always welcome.Wah said Kongs enthusiasm for the

game is contagious. In turn, Kong addsWahs love for tennis is inspiring.The group threw Wah a combination

Chinese New Year/birthday party lastweekwherehewaspresentedwithacakedecorated with tennis rackets and a redenvelopelledwith cash for good luck.Kong said the group did have one

other player who continued playingat age 90, but unfortunately the manpassed away several years ago.And thats just one more reason for

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